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  • English priests issue “A call to action”

    June 3 2012
    Andrew Conroy

    What a good conversation! O that we could do this in our churches face-to-face. Still, I am not welcome to participate fully in my church's activity without denying my informed conscience and vocation

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Debbie

    Raymond Hickey Bordine # 16 I think that both John Paul II and our present Pope were strongly affected by circumstances in their lives, both were affected personally by the 2nd W.W. and also by Commun

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    Thanks Debbie [#15], for supporting the youth of the 21st. century. I have worked with those kids for over 45 years, and they are the hope for the future and in direct opposition to what Brendan proc

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Margaret Lee

    Thanks Joe. I must have missed it. I believe that the the present goverment of our church have real difficulty in grasping the fact that the Association of Catholic Priests is independent of Church

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Gene Carr

    It seems to me that the idea of 'hell' as something eternal has always been a part of the consciousness and 'lived experience' of humanity. Since people first told and recorded stories in whatever fo

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Jim Johnson

    @Joe O'Leary: Yes, there has never been an embargo on friendship (even strong friendship) between people of the same sex: this proposition is uncontroversial. That the sexual urge is God-given and the

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    There is good reason for the silence of the clergy on hell, and for the discretion of the popes. It would be abuse if a parent told a child, be good or I'll torture you. Is it not abuse also to tell a

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Nice to hear Jim McEvoy remembered -- as I remember his kindness and culture in his student days. "It should also be evident that the very low incidence of homosexuaity in any population makes finding

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Mike O'Sullivan

    Those listed in the article as being perseuted read like an who's who of priests that inspire,men who are are true to their calling to bring the good news to all,sadly not all want to hear it

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Great to see the Mayo forward-line back on the ball again! Brendan Hoban, both in his recent book and in today's 'Rite&Reason' column in the IT, is totally right. If the members of Ireland's Catho

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